“I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.”
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“But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.”
“Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.”
“Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.”
“We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.”
“I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.”
“I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.”
“I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment.”
“My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.”
“I think that heartbreak is a good thing.”
“I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written”
“American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.”
“The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.”
“You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.”
“I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.”
“I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.”
“If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.”
“When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships”
“Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.”
“If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.”